Macy's Central, with its divisional flagship store at Lenox Square, and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a division of Macy's, Inc.. It has stores in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Following Federated's acquisition of May Company, the new division was created February 1, 2006 from the renamed Macy's Central division, the Macy's stores in Louisiana, the Hecht's stores in southern Virginia and North Carolina and most of the Foley's stores in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. An additional realignment of store operations with Macy's Midwest and Macy's West occurred July 30, 2006, with a further transfer of stores with Macy's Midwest to occur by early 2007.
On September 9, 2006, the Hecht's and Foley's nameplates was phased out in favor of the nationally known Macy's.In February 2008 Macy's South acquired Macy's Midwest and renamed itself as Macy's Central.
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There was a prior division of R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. named Macy's South that was headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia that existed from 1988-1992. It operated stores in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Texas as Macy's and in California, Arizona and Nevada as Bullock's. The former South division was formed following Macy's acquisition of Bullock's, incorporating Macy's Atlanta (the former Davison's stores renamed in 1985) with the Florida, Louisiana and Texas locations of Macy's New York and Bullock's. It was dissolved in 1992 and its stores consolidated into Macy's East and Macy's West.
The present Macy's Central incorporates several historic department store franchises, including Rich's, Davison's, Lazarus, Shillito's (John Shillito Co., Cincinnati, Ohio), Rike's, Block's, Foley's, Sanger-Harris, Castner Knott, Goldsmith's, Thalhimer's, Miller & Rhoads, Hecht's, William H. Block Co., Joseph Horne Co., The Famous-Barr Co., L. S. Ayres, The Jones Store Co., Kaufmann's, May Company Ohio, O'Neils and Strouss.
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